Beginning Swift Programming

by Wei-Meng Lee

Enter the Swift future of iOS and OS X programming Beginning Swift Programming is your ideal starting pointfor creating Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps using Apple's new Swiftprogramming language. Written by an experienced Apple developer andtrainer, this comprehensive guide explains everything you need toknow to jumpstart the creation of your app idea. Coverage includesdata types, strings and characters, operators and functions, arraysand dictionaries, control flow, and looping, with expert guidanceon classes, objects, class inheritance, closures, protocols, andgenerics. This succinct — yet complete — overviewprovides a detailed introduction to the core features of Swift. Apple developed Swift to address the limitations of Objective-C,and add features found in more complex languages like Python. Theresults is simpler, cleaner, more expressive code with automaticmemory management, functional programming patterns, and more,including built-in features that make Swift apps faster, scalable,and more secure. This book explains it all, helping developersmaster Apple's new language. Get up to speed quickly to remain relevant and ahead of thecurve.

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 2014

Reviews

[Ginny Pennekamp · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thought it was a pretty basic book when I was reading it, but now that I've turned it in to the library, I keep getting the urge to reference some of his explanation. Simple and easy.

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